Leaving a Million Bucks on the Table: Why Flotype Pivoted in Y Combinator

by g0atbutt on 6/23/2011, 9:06 PM with 10 comments
  • by dshankar on 6/23/2011, 10:00 PM

    To citricsquid, hipchan and others -

    NowJS, and the free open source product "Now," is just one small piece of Flotype the company.

    We haven't launched and haven't disclosed the business-side of NowJS (tl;dr we have an enterprise product that's extremely complex). So trust me, it's not just a "dump open source js" project.

  • by paisible on 6/23/2011, 9:54 PM

    Nowjs does looks cool - however I think Darshan should be giving Node.js more credit when he talks about the startups that "couldn't/wouldn't" have been built without their tech.

  • by Hipchan on 6/23/2011, 9:44 PM

    I didn't realize NowJS was a startup...

    I wrote my own equivalent of nowjs in a few weeks about a month ago... maybe I should apply to yc?

  • by on 6/23/2011, 9:50 PM

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  • by keeptrying on 6/24/2011, 5:10 AM

    Can someone summarize please? I'm in the middle if nowhere with a slow connection, thanks.

  • by fizx on 6/24/2011, 4:55 AM

    $1M in funding is a hell of a lot different than $1M in cash. Misleading title.

  • by on 6/24/2011, 12:38 AM

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  • by on 6/23/2011, 10:28 PM

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  • by redtwo on 6/24/2011, 12:20 AM

    It's sad to throw away a product that would help other people. Why don't you release it as Open Source ?